title: Significance and importance of the psychotherapist's personality and experience.
abstract: The psychotherapist's personality demands an open dynamic organization of the psychophysical systems that determine characteristic behavior and thought. A therapist must think and act coherently with his social ideals. Freedom, creativity and affection shall help to achieve a true 'therapeutic disposition' where knowledge and empathy are paramount and constantly available. A real experience develops from authentic self-correcting practice. 'Countertransferential narcissism' must be studied in order to free the therapist from internal conflictive compromises. Thus, epistemophilic feelings--basic for psychotherapy--can increasingly be developed within a therapist's personality.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Knobel
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology